Coping
['kəʊpɪŋ] or ['kopɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cope
(n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
Typist: Weldon
Examples
- We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He stopped and laid his hand upon a piece of the coping of the burial-ground enclosure, as if he would have dislodged the stone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He is physically weak and not able to turn the strength which he possesses to coping with the physical environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typed by Clyde